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ant starters so far it's opening day anyway but when you're celebrating a world championship, even better. look at the big man say what you will about him he can move. third-base, nice defensive way, a big bond in the playoff last year does it again molina, gold glove, setting up the only run of the game. the error allows the giants to load the bases, walked on four straight pitches foreseen in the only run of the game. giants defense made it stand up and hunter looking pretty good in right field sergio romo coming on for another the third save already we are getting used to this site. beautiful slider in there for strike three, giants eight the cardinals, 1-zero at opening-day at at&t. they have one free of their first four games off to a nice
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start. fred inglis is out at the park, he will have interviews, he was in the giants clubhouse you'll hear about the victory. really, the story the way he has resurrected his career is incredible. >> more a little later. >> viewers have been sharing their photos with us take a look at this adorable giants fan named asher. dad, david nelson had him showing up their tickets. you can send us your fan photos via facebook or twitter or e-mail us photos at ktvu .com. >> san francisco police are looking for a cab jack or who stole a taxi this morning and led officers on a 45 minute long chase. pictures of the chase now, the thief took the cab near san francisco state university police chased him to pacifica and back to sf state. >> is a taxicab rollup i'm a a guy jumps out before it stopped and it slams into the parking post here. then a cop shows up on they both start running.
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>> police say they are looking at the cabs internal surveillance cameras to see to identify the beep. >> company now sonoma county deputies are surrounding a suspected car thief who allegedly threatened to kill officers today. he is also wanted as a suspect in various burglary and robbery cases. the man allegedly stole a vehicle this morning in windsor. deputies spotted him in petaluma that when they say he took off on petaluma point road. ended up in the area in marion county notice would acre. yuppies used a stolen suv onstar system to track it to what acre right now these are live pictures of what is taking place at this very moment here you can see a big police presence again sonoma -- excuse me marion and sonoma county deputies searching for the suspected car thief at one point deputies fired a taster at the man that mr. bayh said he is hiding in a wooded area as you can see in the pictures is too dense to go in after him.
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>> san jose police are investigating the human -- the shooting of the disabled man at the wrong place of the runtime the man was shot around for court this morning after walking into a 711 store near his home near white wrote an sound message -- vista drive approached by three men in a blue car. one of them pulled a gun and shot him twice in the stomach and chest area at this point the motive for the shooting is no. reporter: would be the first time that gang members drove by, fired round that somebody completely unrelated had nothing to do with any games perhaps wearing the wrong type of shirt, hat in the wrong neighborhood and they targeted the wrong person. we will wait and see how this investigation plays out why possible it was mistaken identity. >> the victim's mother tells ktvu her son is paranoid runner no word on his condition that his winds do not appear to be life-threatening. >> in oakland and unexpected announcement today the school
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superintendent tony smith is resigning at the end of june. ktvu jade hernandez tells us why he is leaving. reporter: the man who offered the school district stability and balanced its budget has unexpectedly resigned. >> it's a huge blow to oakland. reporter: tony smith secured a seat four years ago. >> he campaigned for this job he really wanted it and he went around and talk to a lot of people. reporter: when he settled in and he pushed for programs targeting the districts dropout rate instead of zero tolerance he made the restorative justice program at top rarity, taking student -- teaching students to deal with emotions. the president said he is moving his chicago to -- for personal reasons. >> i think his work is unfinished thank you today smith worked is recognized within the education association. >> i don't think anybody questions his commitment to oakland students. we didn't always see eye to eye
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on best how to serve them but i think definitely his heart was in the right place. reporter: in his resignation letter he pointed to his respondent -- risley hospitalize father-in- law and the need to move. today he was not available publicly to speak about his resignation which takes effect at the end of june. so until they so until that point, to continue in his footsteps on next year's -- next week's agenda is a search for an interim superintendents. we are not looking for a successor that wants to take a in a fundamentally different direction. reporter: and oakland jade hernandez ktvu channel two news. >> detective simply martell talitha 28 -year-old woman has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of her father. officers arrived at the home on argyle road around 715 and found a 72 -year-old man lying on the kitchen floor in a puddle of blood. the man's daughter was at the home in violation of a restraining order. police state the two got in a fight that ended in the father's
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death. >> president obama apology tonight about comments he made about california's attorney general. the president called here is the best looking internal -- attorney general at a fundraiser in silicon valley yesterday. today white house press secretary said the president called harris to apologize for any distraction caused by his comments. >> old friends, good friends. he did not want in any way to diminish the attorney general's professional accomplishments and her capability. >> harris' office released a statement today, it reads, the attorney general and the president have been friends for many years they had a great conversation yesterday and she strongly supports them. >> first lady michelle obama is getting attention for what she said in an interview. the first lady accidentally referred to herself as a busy single mother while being interviewed yesterday at a
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vermont tb station she quickly corrected herself saying sometimes being married to the president makes her feel single but that quote, he is around. the first lady was discussing the challenges faced by working parents. some economists say today's job report may be assigned to date economy is heading into a week spring and a blend rate slipped to one tenth of a percentage point employers added only 88,000 jobs that is below the average for the previous fix months. >> on wall street today the disappointing jobs report put a damper on stacks. the dow lost 40, nasdaq up 21 and the s&p 500 dropped six. >> the fiery refinery unit that sent 15,000 people to the hospital last august is about to fire up again. what it all means. >> a break in the clouds right now i am tracking some showers up to the north coming up we will break down the shower chances as we head into your weekend.
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. >> the chevron refinery was given the go-ahead today to restart unit at richmond heavily damaged in a huge fire last year. also a fact-finding committee got an earful about what led up to that fire. our consumer editor attended the hearing and is now live in richmond tom? reporter: well about noon today this now infamous refinery got the go-ahead to resume operations. >> at today's joint legislative meeting chevron was named the main culprit. >> 25 violations in all, 11 of those were willful, serious prior to the incident, during the incident and following the incident. reporter: too many regulatory agencies with too few inspectors took it to. >> in the case of the fire of the reactive of regulation simply did not work to prevent what was ultimately a
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preventable accident. >> procedures or activities rather than concrete measures to reduce risk at every opportunity. reporter: the lawmakers would not say it in so many words, it is clear they don't trust chevron. >> today we are asking for chevron to pay for an independent safety culture audit of the facility. >> the issue is adequate oversight. >> senator hancock proposed a new loss to sharply increase fines for safety violations. assemblywoman skinner once industry jubilantly fix violations instead of tying them up in endless appeals as chevron has done. >> if it were dangerous situation you would still have to abate in the interim. >> plus more inspectors, stricter laws, larger find. >> so we are not left to depend on accidents and catastrophes to find out. reporter: operation start? chevron issued a statement staying it continues to work
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toward bringing the refinery to full production sometime in the 2nd quarter. translated, that means anytime he chooses reporting my consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel two news. >> british petroleum today was denied its request to block settlement payments settling from the deep horizon oil spill in 2010 a federal judge rejected their arguments the claims administrator misinterpreted how those settlement should be calculated. last year, bp reached a settlement resolving most economic and medical injury claims are private parties. at the time the company estimated the settlement would cost about $7.8 billion but in february, that number rows to a $.5 billion. >> and manhole explosion in semper cisco's chinatown left hundreds of people without power this afternoon and happened around 1130 this morning on bush and stockton street a manhole cover flew off and hit a passing vehicle no one was hurt, pg&e says an underground power cable
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failed causing the explosion knocking out power to about 2100 homes and businesses. most was restored about two hours later. >> that police officer who took down a passenger attacking a tsa guard at an airport in hawaii, undoubtedly received lots of high fives when he to work tomorrow. corporal justin rogers headed home from vacation on saturday when a woman arched her security at the honolulu airport assaulted a female agent as we showed you last night, rogers vaulted over a wall and tackled the attacker. >> . >> but woman was defenseless had her arms up trying to defend herself and somebody needed to help her and luckily i was close enough to be able to help her out. reporter: rogers voided his flight broke when he is effective to be back on duty tomorrow night. >> the power is back on tonight after a pickup truck took out a power pole in oakland happened of foothill boulevard and church street at about 130 this morning. police are looking for the
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driver who left the scene pg&e says up to 3500 customers lost power when the incident caused a transformer to blow the flash was reportedly seen miles away. >> traffic is moving once again along interstate eight 80 after next and this afternoon caused a lengthy backup happened about noon, you can see one of the vehicles they're involved in the crash another flipped over, landing on its roof the chp says at least one person was briefly trapped inside incredibly the people in both vehicles suffered only mining injuries the scene was cleared up by about 12:40 this afternoon. >> checking out with meteorologist mark tamayo to find out what your weather is going to look like. mark? nice up there or dicey? >> is not stormy or sunny somewhere in between a few doubts around today is actually nice to see the sunshine and clouds cleared out revealing partly cloudy skies and temperatures have been on the mild side. right now live storm tracker you
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can see the rain showers to the north of right now over the bay area here's the latest imagery batch of high clouds of debris and parts of north bait out to ukiah moving into parts of sonoma county as well. the closer inspection. close to the golden gate bridge between the south more sunshine to san jose, mountain view and morgan hill's. as far as current integers as i mentioned pretty mild showing you the 60s toward antioch and livermore santa rosa 63 degrees semper cisco about xt and san jose mid- 60s 65 degrees forecast headlines for tonight we will go with partly cloudy skies at that of a breeze wind around 10 to 20 miles an hour this weekend more cloud cover some breaks in the clouds and a chance of scattered light showers all of this is very like not a big deal. we clear up the clouds completely and temperatures warming up and back noticeable warm-up in the five-day forecast. overnight lows first thing tomorrow morning, coolest locations in the upper 40s toward santa rosa napa
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fairfield, livermore 50s closer to the bay toward san francisco, oakland san jose forecast low 51 degrees clouds, patchy fog again and chance of showers to start out your saturday morning. here we go with the updated forecast model 10:00 tonight still cloud pockets of drizzle, between now and 10:00 clouds will be increasing high clouds and here we go tomorrow morning at 9:00 little activity once again favoring parts of north bay but a few sprinkles around the central portions of the date at 9:00. you see the front basically fall apart over the bay area so 1:00 still a little bit of blue here reflecting at least a chance of sprinkle or light shower by 4:00. hold onto the possibility lingering cloud, coming up the forecast model i will let you know if we have more shower chances for the 2nd half of the weekend and when clouds completely clear out of the area. >> thank you. we have learned to bay area
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lawmakers used thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to give out bonuses. just days before leaving office. as, barlett reports they are the only ones giving their top aides a last-minute salary boost. reporter: and hours after election night their furniture was removed from their offices, computers and equipment disconnected. they had weeks until retirement. at the same time bay area congresswoman congresswoman lynn woolley and congressman pete stark gave top aides last-minute pay hikes. our review of federal records show mister stargate staffers pay hikes of between $7000 and $16,000 and $16,000 in the final weeks. a separate report says the ticket staffers and average salary boost of between 45% and 54% in the final three months of their term. >> what gets people jacked up about congressional bonuses it comes from the taxpayers that we do, as taxpayers want to know why folks got bonuses and the accountability of why members who are outgoing are lame duck,
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why they tend to increase their levels of bonus pay. reporter: this is a particularly sensitive issue now because so many government workers are losing their jobs, not just hear the capital but because of massive federal budget cuts. >> we made efforts to reach them for, but couldn't they were far from alone and all us house members build out last-minute bonuses in 2101 formal congressional staffer told me bonuses are quite fair congress does not offer severance and the job market, even here, is bleak . scott mcfarland ktvu channel two news. >> a debate over whether passengers should be allowed to have small knives on airplanes will go away the argument being made by flight attendants against the tsa policy changes. also records ask about scandal grows the top school official now resigning because of this controversial videotape
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. >> flight attendants across the country including here in san francisco took to the nation's airport this week campaigning to keep knives other planes. they are concerned recent safety changes by the transportation security administration could put them in danger. the tsa has loosened rules allowing small knives and other weapons on planes beginning april 25. the tsa argued knives can't be used to take over planes or get into the cockpit any longer because of changes made
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following the 911 attacks and they say airport security should focus on bonds and toxins not small weapons. >> i am not opposed to the tsa let the tsa lifting bans on certain items but starting with potential weapons is not the place to start having casualties with flight attendants and passengers is not acceptable. reporter: we took pictures yesterday as flight attendants explained to passengers of why they don't want knives allowed on airplanes today's after he fired the meds that will coach the athletic director of rutgers university has resigned. temper nettie fired coach mike rice after the video became public showing him shoving players and using anti- gay slurs today the president said they should have fired him months ago when her daddy first saw the video. >> we mutually agreed that this is in the best interest of records. i appreciate the positive things tim has done for the university but i also recognize the gravity of recent developments in
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regard to the men's basketball program. >> the president of rutgers said he should've pursued the original investigation more aggressively and viewed the video before it became public and he apologized to the rutgers community. >> when it comes to the best march madness moment in history it seems to not get any better than christian laettner's buzzer beater in the regional final in 1992. europe with a shot. he got the ball no time left on the clock gave duke the overtime when and all 700,000 votes from fans and college basketball experts were counted the shot you stop right there was selected as the top moment. the competition was in honor of the ncaa tournament 75th anniversary. voters also selected the best layers in the history of the tournament including cream abdul-jabbar, larry bird, michael west and michael jordan. >> the closer you are the baseball park him in a more expensive it is to park. i will tell you about changes
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this season. >> only on 2 for the first time we are hearing from the father of that paramedic who was shot and killed earlier this week in oakland. what he is saying tonight about his son.
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. >> back now to open a day for the san francisco giants. the neighborhood around at&t park totally changes when the giants are playing at home but this year there are some changes fans are totally happy about. take -- ktvu noel walker here to show us what has been so upset. reporter: break, the game is over crowds are still bringing energy and business the neighborhood but if you have a supersecret free parking spot chances are it is not free today.
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this is the tale of two neighborhoods in mission bay in the off-season and mission bay in baseball season. peds tavern and pedro's cantina where everybody knows your name until the giants play ball than it is a place where everybody knows the giants players name. >> romo. >> sandoval. >> the bar is a sea of orange and black that ebbs and flows with the game schedule. at capacity most days it helps when you have 40 fees and people cross in your fridge or. reporter: if not all peanuts and cracker jacks what is good for business can be frustrating for fans. free street parking is nearly nonexistent this season at best once free parking have a two-hour limit not long enough for a game. >> did they up the meters to be on two-hour so people can park for the game? reporter: no. >> i am here for tennis, i don't have tickets today. reporter: added to the squeezed pier 32
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this proposed site of the new warriors arena is not available for parking anymore just last month san francisco designated special event parking zones code for more expensive. rates in those areas are up from the regular 25 cents to $5.75 an hour to a minimum of $5 an hour, $7 an hour closer to at&t park. >> that reduces people from looking for free parking or cheap harking. and eliminates congestion. >> i am used to not going to pay a lot for games. >> now you are forced to the pay lot. >> things are changing. reporter: the price fans paid to refer the home team. something else to keep in mind the special event area meters run longer too until 10:00 p.m. so keep that in mind for the next night in reporting live noel walker ktvu channel two news. >> if you were lucky enough to find parking and enjoy the game you received a treat. again filled with world championship west indies and good pitching by this -- by barry zito fred inglis is out
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but park where he talked of the winning pitcher. reporter: after barry zito walked off the mound in the 7th inning the sold-out crowd gave out a chance barry, dairy and they were calling for barry bonds. barry zito look like his 2002 cy young award-winning self. seven shutout innings, three hits three walks, four strikeouts and after the giants for their one and only run in the bottom of the 4th inning berry came back with a one to 3 inning in the fifth allowing just nine pitches in those three outs. giants are now 15-zero in barry's last 15 starts. >> were second i was locked in 15 games but baseball is really an unpreything can happen and sometimes if td sometimes you feel pretty good but that also doesn't dictate your results so today was a battle for being too keep consistency with my pitches. >> a true exampl

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